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[转贴] 大笨把印钱的机器搞坏了。。。

Government can’t print money properly
By Zachary Roth

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By Zachary Roth zachary Roth – Mon Dec 6, 9:36 am ET

As a metaphor for our troubled economic and financial era -- and the government's stumbling response -- this one's hard to beat. You can't stimulate the economy via the money supply, after all, if you can't print the money correctly.

Because of a problem with the presses, the federal government has shut down production of its flashy new $100 bills, and has quarantined more than 1 billion of them -- more than 10 percent of all existing U.S. cash -- in a vault in Fort Worth, Texas, reports CNBC.

"There is something drastically wrong here," one source told CNBC. "The frustration level is off the charts."

[Related: Money fair showcases $100,000 bill]

Officials with the Treasury and the Federal Reserve had touted the new bills' sophisticated security features that were 10 years in the making, including a 3-D security strip and a color-shifting image of a bell, designed to foil counterfeiters. But it turns out the bills are so high-tech that the presses can't handle the printing job.

More than 1 billion unusable bills have been printed. Some of the bills creased during production, creating a blank space on the paper, one official told CNBC. Because correctly printed bills are mixed in with the flawed ones, even the ones printed to the correct design specs can't be used until they 're sorted. It would take an estimated 20 to 30 years to weed out the defective bills by hand, but a mechanized system is expected to get the job done in about a year.

[Related: Design firm seeks to rebrand dollar with Obama's image]

Combined, the quarantined bills add up to $110 billion -- more than 10 percent of the entire U.S. cash supply, which now stands at around $930 billion.

The flawed bills, which cost around $120 million to print, will have to be burned.

The new bills are the first to include Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's signature.  In order to prevent a shortfall,the government has ordered production of the old design, which includes the signature of Bush administration Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. That, surely, is not the only respect in which the nation's lead economic officials would like to turn back the clock to sometime before the 2008 financial crisis.

[Rewind: Another printing snafu delays $100 bill]

(AP photo of older $100 bills rolling off the presses: Doug Mills)
要一年才能把印坏的钱给找出来!

这一年还印吗?
你不是说过了嘛,系统里后面加几个零就完事了,印真钱只是个形式,而已。。。

不过偶很垂涎搞几张印坏了的,这年代,假钱错钱比真钱值钱多了。。。

哥浪的不是股,是风流。。。得大法者,亦须有大力行之。。。扰攘市井,不如闭宫自乐;口水是非,轻挥赤松拂尘;行事处世,贵在行知合一;缘来缘去,妙在顺其自然;花开赏花,能执唯有当下;秀峰美水,随意停车坐爱。。。
这样更多的人会有活干了,对GDP的贡献更大。
好主意,咱去帮着选钱去,偷偷弄几张错钱回来。。。
哥浪的不是股,是风流。。。得大法者,亦须有大力行之。。。扰攘市井,不如闭宫自乐;口水是非,轻挥赤松拂尘;行事处世,贵在行知合一;缘来缘去,妙在顺其自然;花开赏花,能执唯有当下;秀峰美水,随意停车坐爱。。。
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